Why So Few People Have This AWFUL Achievement [EU4]

[@Quarbit]

I'm hoping for 40k by the end of August! If you liked what you saw, consider dropping a like and subscribing!

[@beister7278]

Do your beautiful runs more often and you will get 100k at the end of August, really

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

Foah teh Emprah!!!

[@FonikosGazmas]

4:50 Dogs? Dogs?!? DOGS?!?!?!? PARADOX YOU SICK BASTARDS....

[@AustrianAnimations]

It was awesome.

[@Ragatokk]

I know you can do it, you only need to lose 400 in a little over a month.

[@brian6508]

While it may be ambitious, I think it might be interesting to do colonial nations as a whole. Independent colonial nations have no flavor. For the majority of them there are no unique missions, no mission trees, or anything else like that in the game.

[@notme8232]

Yeah, we need United States missions at the bare minimum.

[@whyops]

@@notme8232 not really

[@ysff0710]

@@whyops yes

[@alexbattaglia8297]

The expanded missions mod gives trees to most formable colonial nations like, USA, Canada, Colombia, Australia, etc.

[@elafl807]

@@notme8232 Nah we dont. EU4 timeline is set long before the US, and the game forcefully ends almost right when the US got their independence

[@Osariik]

Hawaiʻi has some really cool geological features, such as its many volcanoes, the Great Crack and Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly known as Lōʻihi)

[@cameronhawley1905]

I’d like to smoke some Hawaiian Great Crack

[@gideonmele1556]

Gotta love the really long Hawaiian names

[@Intelwinsbigly]

And Jack in terms of mineral resources. T. Its half the reason why we yoinked their land.

[@collinlogan4170]

ah yes, change a perfect name to a much harder to say name, never change hawaiians

[@Osariik]

@@collinlogan4170 it’s really not that hard to say, Hawai’ian phonetics are fairly easy. Anyways, Kama’ehuakanaloa is the native name; Lō’ihi was the name given to it by scientists that didn’t know it was already named, and it just means “long”.

[@petersteenkamp]

Regarding Hawaiian cavalry, they're Monty Python cavalry (clacking two halves of a coconut together).

[@E4439Qv5]

No donkeys?

[@AcornFox]

no swallows required

[@kizermason]

I actually like Hawaii, it's pretty fun to snake down to New Zealand and Australia so it's then easy to expand from there

[@Quarbit]

I think Hawaii would actually make for a cool game but the achievement robs you of the true Hawaii experience + the MT could be better

[@kizermason]

@@Quarbit My goal is to one day make an Hawaii Pacific Empire. To turn everything that touches the Pacific ocean under the heal of Hawaii! (Eastern Asia to the western coast of the Americas)

[@usafeagle]

The rescue Ming idea sounds really interesting! Would love to see that.

[@FrigidGold]

Random note: Greenland also doesn’t count as a colonial region, which can be useful if you’re doing similar shenanigans but are in Europe (doesn’t work as well as the other islands I don’t think, but it’s still useful)

[@jeffparker2369]

I think this is also true for Bermuda

[@betaplain297]

Also, Greenland counts as part of north america so if you are playing as england or Norway and want to get colonialism or the splendor from being in two continents there you go

[@NolanSchuster4]

This was the last achievement I got when i had my old computer. That took a minute to do a whole month. Although I thought the run in terms of gameplay was quite fun, the lack of action made the game pretty boring and just sitting at the computer for like 3 whole days made me go buy a new computer for a thousand dollars that does a month in 3 seconds. It’s interesting to actually be rolling in ducats after you unite the Hawaiian islands and just delete your whole army until you need it to colonize, which I did by going south to go east. I colonized north Colombia to just bypass all of South America, moved my capital there, and then went up to the USA and colonized there while conquering 1-2 native tribes. I had conquered Australia and New Zealand cause I was bored but that ended up making my capital switching harder, as I had to release all the nations as vassals.

[@Quarbit]

run was so boring you had to buy a new pc 💀

[@walnzell9328]

Polynesians in history: **Colonizes the entire eastern Pacific** Polynesians in this game: **I sleep**

[@garak55]

I mean, they did that for sure but like, in the paleolithic or something, not in the 15th century. That's like asking "why are italians catholic and not pagans in eu4?"

[@walnzell9328]

@@garak55 That is true.

[@DBT1007]

Eastern pacific is the pacific in the america side...

[@DavidJamesHenry]

@@garak55 Polynesians reached Hawaii in 400 CE, nowhere near paleolithic. It was the same time as the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

[@PyroManZII]

It seems around 1300 is when historical evidence of Polynesian expansion stops which would be linked with the time that the Samoan and Tongan empires begun to collapse. Not too much is known about their collapses, if they were still expanding after the 1300s, or if they were up to anything else (i.e. landing in the Americas or Australasia).

[@tylerlambert8400]

2:00 Most people don't know but any development gives sailors and naval force limit, not just dip dev

[@Rullino32]

I tried to get this achievement, it's just that I didn't want to have a heart attack after getting attacked by the colonizers randomly, especially when for some reason they bring their powerful allies, I reformed into a theocracy and was stuck with a 1/2/1 which I named Enrique while I had a good heir, It was boring but at least I had a gold mine in California which helped alot but I hate the fact that having them means being targert by everyone in Europe, I also bordered the Zuni federation which for some reason hostile at me but they also didn't attack me despite being better than me. Agreed, Hawaii should get explorers as its tradition considering they explored waaayyyy before EU4 began, it wouldn't make sense to have it as an ambition, it's like the Ottomans getting tolerance of heathens, or Morocco and Tunis raiding coasts as an ambition, it doesn't make sense that something they had before 1444 has to be taken much later, too bad the Polynesians are neglected by the developers.

[@mareksicinski3726]

Hawaii didn’t, they were the result of earlier exploration though, but not of the EU4 style where you report back.

[@najdopanovski566]

Im surprised they didn't make explorers a part of their government type

[@Rullino32]

@@najdopanovski566 makes sense, they also have colonial range from events and another event which give a navigator advisor, it's basically the most useless modifier for a nation that for some reason gets explorers as an ambition, if they managed to get in these islands by exploring them they should also get the possibility to explore the rest of the world, there are even hypothesis that some of them made it to the americas.

[@Oujouj426]

The polynesians didn't get neglected, lol, the whole reason we have polynesians AT ALL is because they bothered to do it alongside other, more pressing regions at the time. They just didn't get a very expansive amount of content, which is... well, to be expected. Close to no one will be playing the polynesians, and on a Grand Strategy level, they did close to nothing at all in the game's timeline.

[@MyUsersDark]

@@Oujouj426 well yeah, but something as simple as swapping the ambition and traditions should have been thought of.

[@Redarmy1917]

I tried this run. Right after I started colonizing in Florida, the Brits followed right next to me and immediately declared, destroying/taking all of them. Never remotely considered trying the achievement again. I was devastated by spending a decent part of a day doing fuck all just waiting to get colonial range only to be instantly stopped the moment I can start properly doing the achievement. On a kind of similar note I just finished a Knights of the Caribbean run that was much more enjoyable. Except I didn't get the achievement because I forgot I needed the Mediterranean islands also and the Ottos are way the fuck stronger than me.

[@klartraum8495]

I don't know if it was intended but if you vassalize a nation out of your colonial range and you give them land in a war you can claim land for yourself next to that province. You can't core it unless you lose the rest of your provinces and become an OPM but if you do it in Mexico you will be able to find some easy targets that you will easily conquer. This way you can reach the New World before the Europeans and be strong enough when they start creating colonial nations. Once you start snowballing you can easily conquer the whole continent and if you stack the correct modifiers you can get tons of governance capacity and 40% minimum autonomy in territories.

[@tonylu2471]

Every time I see these games I always want to see someone take every island in the world and just become a huge naval power holding the world hostage.

[@Quarbit]

I like the way you think

[@belgiumbunlover5787]

11:23 "Looks like Norway is here for some reason." HEY EVERYBODY, IT'S LEIF ERIKSON DAY! HINGADINGADURGEN!

[@nickto9872]

When I played Hawaii . I started by uniting the home region then attacked the other tribes to vassalize them, then started making them make claims to nearby provinces so I can claim them as my land expanded to the new zealand tribes. Started colonising australia. Tried to form it but got blocked by the u cant form a nation because u have big heartland.

[@AlexFireflyer]

Yeah, you need to move the capital to America. I gave everything away to vassals. Although I did thy great mistake to colonize that damned island in my capital region, which despite being in the state it's not in the same sea tile, so I could not give it away. So, I had to move my capital twice, first to the damned island and the to the New World. :P

[@crayonmythos]

Doesn't make sense that that's a choice seeing as Hawaiians had no form of currency and making war claims was super difficult because you had to defend your reason to the tribe and inspire them. Even if you were a chief you could still get shot down plus it depends on what tribe and island and time of year you invade. We had a holiday that made it kapu (illegal) to start wars. This was the same time Cooke came hence why we didn't kill him despite knowing who he was. This is why when king Kamehameha went to war with the islands he used guns. Some tribes joined without conflict though. Really, you don't need vassals in Hawai'i because we were self sufficient and had everything we needed. Only reason why we united was because of threat of invasion by the English. Other than that there was no reason. Instead, the run should be about trading and discovery rather than warfare as that is what traditionally Pacific Islanders did, warfare was a background thing and was rare until the 19th century but that was because of Colonialism rather than pure greed or ignorance.

[@chimochills]

The achievo was broken for a while apparently. I had fun on my run but yes, lots of speed 5 sim.

[@sulmage9926]

5:15 Bottom left Amogus, YES! very SUS indeed my friends!

[@Augustusnimbus]

I laughed when you said,"This is it. This is the Hawai experience." With a dead voice🤣🤣

[@jameslockhart4507]

You like mission trees? Play Anbennar, perhaps as a dwarven company in the big mountain range. Then "found Mithradum"

[@marnios]

In the start screen he can continue as balrajin so he plays anbennar

[@Rolatii]

*Sees the Balrijin save* Ah, I see you too are a man of culture.

[@joshuaalach9431]

If you were to do a mod in the Pacific, which be glad to help. I'm from New Zealand, and cringe at how badly represented the Maori are.

[@Rullino32]

True, he should get explorers and conquistadors as a tradition because the polynesians went all the way to Madagascar, it's like saying that Morocco should raid after their get the ambition, after all if they were ambitions they shouldn't be existing nations in polynesia in the samr way Barbary piracy did from the 15th century.

[@joshuaalach9431]

@@Rullino32 sort of. The Polynesians didn't go to Madagascar. The Austronesians did. There is a distinction. Basically the Polynesians are one of a variety of groups descended from Austronesians. Also i think that there should simply be a fairly wide "seen" area, but beginning with a conquistador or colonist right away would be a bit op. Colonist and conquistador as a 3rd idea for the smaller island nations seems fair to me. Notably the Maori did not do much exploration after settling in NZ. NZ had so many more resources than the Polynesian island chains that it seemed pointless. One major change needs to be the number of provinces in NZ, as well as a reworking of the system to reflect the multi-tiered whanau-hapu-iwi structure of Maoridom.

[@chomskyhonk2366]

YOU'RE NOT MAORI, COLONIZER.

[@AnemoiaBlues]

@@chomskyhonk2366 Calm down

[@chomskyhonk2366]

@@AnemoiaBlues The time of the white man is soon over.

[@PrincessEowynn]

I foolishly decided to follow in your footsteps after watching this video, got the achievement in 1576 after getting DoW'd by Spain, which was the only war i was in after i unified the archipelago in 1455. Incidentally that was the only time during the campaign i had any fun. 0/10, earned a sub from me, do Australia Hungary next

[@teddys5775]

My Hawaii experience involved me full annexing the Australian natives only to realize I couldn’t religious switch to Alcheringa because they don’t have rebels

[@hellkerbex4895]

thanks for restarting my eu4 addiction

[@Quarbit]

welcome back

[@wilson2182]

This achievement was actually ez pz to get for me. I got it the first week or so after launch pretty much just colonizing to get to the east coast through Panama

[@atlasbailly5439]

I mean he said it was easy just boring

[@Some_Context]

I see that your search for Balris has lead you to strange, foreign lands. I wish you the best of luck brother

[@r.o.b8728]

Because 99% of the playerbase does not own all 9 million dlcs so they don't go for the achievements because they can't get all of them

[@E4439Qv5]

Humble Bundle helped a lot of people catch up.

[@jameskesler6477]

They added a subscription which let me get all of them and even if I pay for it for a year it’s still a really good dral

[@andresalvarez5415]

Impressive very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s United States

[@Hyphinated]

I wish the Hawaiian islands would have their own semi-unique mission trees where it’s a mix between the Polynesian ones & Hawaiian islands original ones.

[@jessemcallen3960]

I don't know what this game is, or why this channel was recommended to me, but boi this was a fun watch

[@StrudelerOfTheTSociety]

Leviathan gets worse every time I get reminded of it.

[@LegateLynx]

Russia banking paper mana to move to Bermuda then Brazil, then you get to have used Siberian frontiers on Asia and throughout South America.

[@medusa1147]

The elevator music you had playing in the background is an excellent touch for such a boring achievement 🤣

[@jahmive]

i never tried hawai but my first idea would be spamming humiliate wars and show strenght would have to find a way to restart peace timers tho mayby just truce break or leave attack 1 and have the other white peace and then the other way around

[@DD-nb9rn]

12:25 Quarbit: "Now we can vassalize the Len-ape" Me whose studied the Lenape tribes in 7th grade (our curriculum was weird): its literally pronounced "len-a-pay"

[@crayonmythos]

It makes zero sense that Hawaiians would be placed in colonizer shoes, this is not what Pacific Islanders are. We had a few skirmishes here and there but that was for petty squabbles usually rather than purely land and resources although that would also be pretty petty as well. We were self sufficient and had no concept of currency so there was no need for vassals or servants, instead we relied on each other. Occasionally you might have a helper who might be seen as a servant but this was for specific cases like someone to help a woman change her pad during periods (the "pad" was made from plant fibre that wrapped around her body to be secure). Warfare in Hawai'i began as a reaction to Colonialism where we were terrified of an invasion rather than pure greed or ignorance. Instead the Pacific Islander run should be about trade and exploration rather than conquer as that would be more accurate to my ancestor's culture.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

12:20 In CK2 that's called the sunset invasion

[@LegateLynx]

The one thing I would have suggested is to try and nocb vassalize a Maori country. I don’t know if Hawaii and New Zealand count as being part of the same Oceania “continent”. If they do, then you could fabricate claims, annex and core any province adjacent to a vassal provided that province is on the same continent as your capital. This factors in often to join the hre by conquering East Frisia, taking Irish earldom for colonial range, or imereti for conquering in the Middle East. Some Japanese shogun players use it in India. If this case it’s debatable whether the 50 dev is worth a nocb stab hit but it would give you some expansion while waiting for colonists, also expanding range.

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

12:05 strange when the shoe is on the other foot

[@zioming]

One of the great things about eu4 and paradox games in general, is that not only do you get the console to play around with, but you can also mess with the save files, and even the game files to any extent that you'll still find more fun than game breaking. To give an example, all you need to do to switch the Hawaii-an traditions and ambitions is to go to the game folder\common\ideas, edit 'zz_group_ideas.txt', and under 'hawaiian_ideas' replace the values inside 'start={}' and 'bonus={}'.

[@ComradeJello]

sneaky little among eye hiding there in 5:16

[@LunarAkai]

still disappointed that paradox didnt add a "tonga time" achievement :v (tonga was one of my first campaigns on the leviathan patch, but yeah, its maybe 0.5 more fun points compared to hawaii, but still very monotonous ^^)

[@Rullino32]

What would the Tonga time Achievement require? Never heard of it.

[@LunarAkai]

@@Rullino32 i just thought that it would be funny to add an achievement called like that. I know Paradox likes puns in achievements, so a "tonga time" as a reference to "history of the entire world, i guess" would have been something nice i guess ^^

[@MyUsersDark]

Quar-tiki commences his famous journey across the Pacific, 16th century (colorised)

[@chrisohm90]

Switching Capital is not necessary for the achievement: just colonize some provinces in the east coast region until your colonial nation will form and has 10 provinces. Than give them independence and choose play as "whatever-name-you-gave-your-cn". Now form America. Achievement done! That's the way I did it

[@xaawgiinanukilang9467]

When you unite Hawaii and become a kingdom they should add an event that allies you to the Haida. My fathers family was there when the first king of Hawaii was coronated we came all the way from Haida gwaii

[@xaawgiinanukilang9467]

The royal family still has the gifts we gave them more than 160 years ago they call my people big brother and big sister

[@mymejojo2]

Saving ming from an explosion sounds like a really fun video idea! Please do it!

[@amilavxilmen5632]

That idea with Ming seems cool

[@maxbielawski6745]

I really appreciate your pronunciation of Maui. Very solid.

[@GerinoMorn]

I didn't even know there is Hawai'i in EU4. I wish I could understand this game (HoI4, CK2/3 sure, but EU4 is beyond me) :D Anyway, great video, had fun.

[@joerrg5842]

Oh man. I did this right after the update. I feel your pain. It was so frickn boring xD. But now I've got the achievement.

[@SH3LLHeAD]

At least it's not just me that hasn't done Voltaire's Nightmare

[@sergeantmajor_gross]

Please do Voltaire’s Nightmare next. It’s pretty easy as Austria. Just conquer a lot of Slavic land and let them join the hre.

[@jcplays3842]

7:59 No, but there were horse-sized ducks

[@elgirl19]

I tried for this achievement and got declared on by Spain 3/4 of the way through

[@GTAIVisbest]

Why do they use a flag designed in the 2000s for the pre-colonial nation of united hawaii?

[@verilius6026]

You mentioned in the video that you can move your capital to the new world using bermuda, but how would this be done? I've tried doing this in 1.33 but it's not allowed due to "your capital still has a [_] heartland around it".

[@biotools420]

I really liked this run when I did it, first time using that hella broken totemist republic strat.

[@lamaboii7656]

Another method to change capital to the new world is by having 1 province/state in another continent (Asia/Africa/Europe) and make that your capital. In my knights game I changed my capital to Djerba, my only African province and then I could move it to the new world.

[@evancarlson5805]

At least you can surf all by yourself until someone else finds you.

[@bartekwroblewski8328]

You don't really need to move your capital - you can just release the colony.

[@mareksicinski3726]

The reason it’s rare is bc it’s obscure et mc 16:19 that’s ur opinion, what you find enjoyable

[@fabian4809]

I see you been playing that anbennar. Balrijin Goldbois for life.

[@sadunfor4549]

Wasn’t going into this video expecting to subscribe, guess I was wrong. Hope you reach 50k soon!

[@NerdSlayer69420]

I have this achievement, it just was annoying wasting your time more than anything, got the achievement and said bye to that run

[@Hei102]

I did this achievement recently what i did was just wait and explore and when i have the colonist i blob out in california and switch my capital there snake down to all of mexico own it and then colonize all the way up to east coast though the hard part is federations (even though you should be 2 mil tech ahead) and european powers (they are usually 2 techs ahead of you) so i got decced by portugal spain and colonial france luckily 2 only wanted money and france wanted all my provinces on the east coast right after i formed usa luckily so my country collapsed right after lmao to rebels because no manpower and bankrupty

[@TheDolphinTuna]

5:06 "I think mission trees are the most important part of a country" I think I threw up in my mouth a little

[@Quarbit]

take it back

[@TheDolphinTuna]

​@@Quarbit My King, we have sent a highly cultured letter to Quarbit. However, they have somehow interpreted it as an INSULT. We are amused at their lack of culture but they appear to be quite upset.

[@AlexFireflyer]

Done it. Quiet a slog at times, but fun overall.

[@froodsmash]

This Ming idea sounds delightfully devilish.

[@mullerreus145]

This guy's voice is the same voice Bateman uses when he's pretending to be Paul Allen lol

[@oShotty]

I saw the amogus....

[@sneed457]

No tag in Oceania should be in the game. Change my mind

[@geniegerny]

I always enjoy these. Your "subtile" sarcasm nails it every time and gets me choking from laughter xd

[@alfarizz2]

5:15 amongus

[@TheSaoMagnifico]

Taking the decision as Hawai'i to form Hawai'i feels a little, uh, redundant?

[@gimmli13k.55]

If you like interesting Mission Trees, you can try the Anbennar Mod for EU4. It is really great and has excellent Missions.

[@merlijnsiffels3292]

Every Dev of a coastal province gives both landforcelimit and naval forcelimit

[@ohNojames]

Would be cool if you could use manpower to move ships overland

[@velprox1]

I got this while playing slay the spire and EU4 in the background

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

Interesting you full annex straight away. The land is worth F all so I just kept humilating/showing strength on the two of them every 10 years. Got it done in 1533.

[@greencrystals9022]

i feel powerful. if i Like the number goes to 4K. if i dont it goes to 3.9K. Limitless POWER

[@stupnevroman]

Well done anyway. I didn't get it last time cause i had had a more intresting things to do, like napping after a long busy week in bed instead of chair. But i chose a different path for that run. Though the California and Rocky Mountains. It was sufficient, despite dropping everything to a vassal, got 3 gold mines across all of western coast to fuel the war efforts. It wasn't hard, but it was boring to get there and extremely annoying with all of this tribal shitland and millions of native stacks.

[@mojomuffin1543]

Man, I got this achievement in like 1.31.something; to roleplay the US of A, I had corruption in the 20s and about 40 inflation, and max loans at all time

[@siluda9255]

ngl almoust fell sleep during this video lol

[@Quarbit]

fell asleep making it

[@medika9651]

Ntgl i had fun while doing the achievement . I love playing as unorthodox colonizers

[@prestonjones1653]

My favorite colonial nations are Korea and Ethiopia.

[@medika9651]

@@prestonjones1653 I also did the Kilwa achievement Little grindy but still had fun

[@mareksicinski3726]

5:55 that would be unrealistic tho, I like playing with one relistic limitations

[@alexbattaglia8297]

Sounds like the perfect achievement to get while watching something on the side lol

[@stratagama]

ill admit i got about 4 minutes in being very confused until I realized this wasn't hearts of iron

[@aidandalton7826]

god can you imagine how fucked american history would be if this actually happened. Like yes, the king of hawaii decided to travel across and entire continent just to form america. Must have one hell of a manifest destiny

[@MegasAlexandros28]

Haha, lil among us character pops up on the lower left corner at 5:16

[@davidrousseau100]

When the nation has such a lack of gameplay that you want to develop a mod to fix it lol

[@akseluslunder2186]

Anybody have any idea what the music around 4:03 is? i've heard it a million times before

[@monteniggrianCRUSHER]

It's called "sented cons" by an artist I have forgotten the name of. Enjoy!

[@AquaAtia]

I didn’t even know Hawaii had any content at all in the game

[@Quarbit]

they hardly do, you're not missing much

[@MaliciousMallard]

I stand by what I said several times on the forums: Hawaii shouldn’t exist in EU4. Extra tags that do nothing but die with incredibly isolated and boring gameplay. It was a mistake putting it into the game

[@goranpersson7726]

as it is now I can agree with ya but if hawai'i had explorers earlier in their ideas I'd say that they would atleast be somewhat more playable and maybe even enjoyable to an extent (more interactive mission tree would help aswell)

[@shamrockshnake1366]

playing Golde Scales in Anbennar i see in the intro

[@frederickbarbarossa7961]

Why is Patrick Bateman playing EU4? You should be in jail!

[@RudolfMaster.]

"tall game is fun"

[@Gyrono]

I see you were playing Anbennar before this

[@kahedakylar]

may i learn the music at the 4:10? 👀

[@jameskesler6477]

I’m about to finish it!

[@TheOzelot11]

I actually managed to fuck this achievement up. I colonized too much, so I couldn't move my capital to the new world.

[@TheOzelot11]

Thank god I watched this, this might fix my problem...